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      <title>AT&amp;T Will Count Micro-Cell Usage Towards Your Data Cap</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 18 Jun 2010 01:21:15 +0000</pubDate>
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        <![CDATA[<img src="http://www.mobilecrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/NAN0002.jpg" />Just when you thought it was safe to love AT&#38;T again, we have another interesting tidbit about their famous 3G Micro-Cell, AKA the <a HREF="http://techcrunch.com/2010/06/15/att-microcell-3g-techcrunch/">"rip-off box."</a>

As you recall, AT&#38;T's MicroCell is being marketed as a way to repair bad connectivity in areas with little or no AT&#38;T reception including, but not limited to, basements, attics, Manhattan, and San Francisco. It essentially piggy backs on your own home network to provide data service and voice to your phone.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techcrunch.com&blog=11718616&post=190437&subd=tctechcrunch&ref=&feed=1" />]]>
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Just when you thought it was safe to love AT&amp;T again, we have another interesting tidbit about their famous 3G Micro-Cell, AKA the <a href="http://techcrunch.com/2010/06/15/att-microcell-3g-techcrunch/">&#8220;rip-off box.&#8221;</a></p>
<p>As you recall, AT&amp;T&#8217;s MicroCell is being marketed as a way to repair bad connectivity in areas with little or no AT&amp;T reception including, but not limited to, basements, attics, Manhattan, and San Francisco. It essentially piggy backs on your own home network to provide data service and voice to your phone.</p>
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      <title>Win A Ticket To See Arrington Spar With ‘Facebook Effect’ Author David Kirkpatrick</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 18 Jun 2010 00:58:09 +0000</pubDate>
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        <![CDATA[<img class="shot2" src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2010/06/thefbeffect2.png" alt="" />Next week, the <a href="http://tickets.commonwealthclub.org/">Commonwealth Club</a> will be holding a special event that will include our own Michael Arrington interviewing <a href="http://www.crunchbase.com/person/david-kirckpatrick">David Kirkpatrick</a>, author of <em>The Facebook Effect</em>, with an introduction by Salesforce founder and CEO <a href="http://www.crunchbase.com/person/marc-benioff">Marc Benioff</a>. And it's a double feature: following the Arrington/Kirkpatrick interview, there will be a second conversation asking if 'Google is Making Us Stupid', featuring Peter Norvig, Google's Director of Research, and author Nicholas Carr, with an introduction from Josh McHugh.

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        <![CDATA[<p><img class="shot2" src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2010/06/thefbeffect2.png" alt="" />Next week, the <a href="http://tickets.commonwealthclub.org/">Commonwealth Club</a> will be holding a special event that will include our own Michael Arrington interviewing <a href="http://www.crunchbase.com/person/david-kirckpatrick">David Kirkpatrick</a>, author of <em>The Facebook Effect</em>, with an introduction by Salesforce founder and CEO <a href="http://www.crunchbase.com/person/marc-benioff">Marc Benioff</a>. And it&#8217;s a double feature: following the Arrington/Kirkpatrick interview, there will be a second conversation asking if &#8216;Google is Making Us Stupid&#8217;, featuring Peter Norvig, Google&#8217;s Director of Research, and author Nicholas Carr, with an introduction from Josh McHugh.</p>
<p>Want to go?  We&#8217;ve got four free tickets to give away.</p>
<p>If you want a shot at one, click the handy &#8216;Like&#8217; buttons below to become fans of TechCrunch and <em>The Facebook Effect</em>, then leave us a comment below saying why you want to go. Feel free to suggest questions for Michael to ask David (though obviously he&#8217;ll ultimately ask what he wants).</p>
<p>The event will take place in San Francisco on June 23, with check-in starting at 5:15 PM.  For full details (or if you want to buy tickets), check out <a href="https://tickets.commonwealthclub.org/auto_choose_ga.asp?area=4&amp;shcode=1825">this page</a>.</p>
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      <title>Twitter ‘OAuthcalypse’ Moved To August Thanks To The World Cup</title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 18 Jun 2010 00:13:48 +0000</pubDate>
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        <![CDATA[<img src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2010/06/twitterapi_s-countdown-to-basic-auth-removal.png" class="shot2">According to a note posted to developers, Twitter is <a href="http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/browse_thread/thread/dfb89d9f29f339a2?pli=1">moving </a> the oAuth switchover date to August, thanks to recent downtime and overload caused by the World Cup in South Africa.

Twitter Platform Team leader Raffi Krikorian writes: 
<blockquote>We want to make sure that you all have calm waters to test your new  codebases where you're not dealing with whales, robots, and whatnot. with the world cup ending on july 11th, you will all have over a month's time of  calm waters and site stability to finish the switch over.  also, with the  vast majority of media providers already switched over to OAuth Echo, you  now also have an additional month of time to work out your integrations with them. 
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        <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2010/06/twitterapi_s-countdown-to-basic-auth-removal.png" class="shot2">According to a note posted to developers, Twitter is <a href="http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/browse_thread/thread/dfb89d9f29f339a2?pli=1">moving </a> the oAuth switchover date to August, thanks to recent downtime and overload caused by the World Cup in South Africa.</p>
<p>Twitter Platform Team leader Raffi Krikorian writes: </p>
<blockquote><p>We want to make sure that you all have calm waters to test your new  codebases where you&#8217;re not dealing with whales, robots, and whatnot. with the world cup ending on july 11th, you will all have over a month&#8217;s time of  calm waters and site stability to finish the switch over.  also, with the  vast majority of media providers already switched over to OAuth Echo, you  now also have an additional month of time to work out your integrations with them.
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<p>Twitter developers were <a href="http://blog.programmableweb.com/2010/04/28/twitter-oauthcalypse-coming-soon/">supposed</a> to move over to OAuth by June 30. Twitter notified developers that it would be moving to oAuth and <a href="http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-api-announce/browse_thread/thread/f71eb68600996af8">shutting off</a> basic authorization. All third-party developers are <a href="http://techleash.com/2010/04/twitter-going-oauth-only-are-developers-ready/">need to</a> to make the switch over to oAuth, as they won&#8217;t be able to use basic authentication, which allows users to hand over their username and password to a third party. oAuth is considered to be more secure because it allows you to connect to a third-party app without having to give out your password and username.  As you can see the countdown to the oAuthcalypse has also <a href="http://www.countdowntooauth.com/">been updated.</a></p>
<p>Twitter has been <a href="http://techcrunch.com/2010/06/15/twitter-world-cup-2/">facing increased</a> downtime over the past week thanks to increased usage of the network because of record usage numbers with the World Cup. </p>
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      <title>Wait, A Hollywood Exec Actually Making Sense With Regard To Movie Rentals And The Web?</title>
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        <![CDATA[<img class="alignright size-full wp-image-190386" title="forrestgump21" src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2010/06/forrestgump21.jpeg" alt="" />Wait a second, what's this? I must not be reading this correctly. An executive for a major Hollywood studio is actually making sense and speaking logically when talking about DVD rental windows and the web? This is a joke, right? A bargaining tactic?

If I'm correctly reading what Paramount Home Entertainment President Dennis Maguire <a href="http://articles.latimes.com/2010/jun/16/business/la-fi-ct-paramount-20100616">told the LA Times</a>, I don't think so.

After rival studios Warner Bros., Universal Pictures, and 20th Century Fox all signed deals with both Netflix and Redbox to put a 28-day window on new DVD releases before they could be available for rent, Paramount is going the other way. They have signed a deal with Redbox to make the films available to rent same day they come out for purchase -- you know, the way things have always been done. Why is Paramount taking such an old school stance? Because they actually did some tests and realized these stupid windows will do nothing to help them sell more DVDs. Imagine that.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techcrunch.com&blog=11718616&post=190382&subd=tctechcrunch&ref=&feed=1" />]]>
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        <![CDATA[<p><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-190386" title="forrestgump21" src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2010/06/forrestgump21.jpeg?w=251&#038;h=357" alt="" width="251" height="357">Wait a second, what&#8217;s this? I must not be reading this correctly. An executive for a major Hollywood studio is actually making sense and speaking logically when talking about DVD rental windows and the web? This is a joke, right? A bargaining tactic?</p>
<p>If I&#8217;m correctly reading what Paramount Home Entertainment President Dennis Maguire <a href="http://articles.latimes.com/2010/jun/16/business/la-fi-ct-paramount-20100616">told the LA Times</a>, I don&#8217;t think so.</p>
<p>After rival studios Warner Bros., Universal Pictures, and 20th Century Fox all signed deals with both Netflix and Redbox to put a 28-day window on new DVD releases before they could be available for rent, Paramount is going the other way. They have signed a deal with Redbox to make the films available to rent same day they come out for purchase &#8212; you know, the way things have always been done. Why is Paramount taking such an old school stance? Because they actually did some tests and realized these stupid windows will do nothing to help them sell more DVDs. Imagine that.</p>
<p>And it&#8217;s not just that &#8212; giving new releases to services like Redbox have actually helped Paramount make <em>more</em> <em>money</em>. Here&#8217;s the two key quotes from Maguire:</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;There hasn&#8217;t been a cannibalization of DVD sales from Redbox, and Redbox was allowing us to expand our business and ultimately make more money.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Those people who want to rent are going to figure out ways to rent, and us restricting them from renting isn&#8217;t going to turn it into a purchase.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>Eureka!</p>
<p>Of course, <a href="http://techcrunch.com/2010/01/07/netflix-hollywood-deal/">I&#8217;ve been saying</a> both of those things <a href="http://techcrunch.com/2010/02/16/warner-bros-redbox-rentals/">for months</a> after I first heard about the idiotic 28-day window. But a few of the Hollywood studios reached out to essentially say that I was wrong. Or to try and explain their rationale by suggesting this wasn&#8217;t just about trying to regain the DVD sales figures they&#8217;re bleeding. Now I can just direct them to Paramount which actually did a test (for almost a year), and came to the same conclusion.</p>
<p>While Maguire doesn&#8217;t actually say the word &#8220;piracy,&#8221; we all know what he means by: &#8220;<em>Those people who want to rent are going to figure out ways to rent</em>.&#8221; At least part of that is addressing the &#8220;rent for free&#8221; crowd, as in, steal.</p>
<p>Further, the idea that restricting movie rentals for 28 days would lead to more sales (what this is really all about) is asinine. I&#8217;ll repeat my stance: the vast majority of people haven&#8217;t stopped buying DVDs because you can rent them &#8212; they&#8217;ve stopped buying them because most are simply not worth owning. The new methods of distribution have simply highlighted that fact. But it&#8217;s too late to put the cat back in the bag now.</p>
<p>Paramount, rather than attempting to drive backwards to take miles off the odometer, is actually thinking ahead. Why not strike a deal with Redbox that they will actually make them some money off of from new release films, rather than praying you can force people to start buying DVDs again? Ingenious.</p>
<p>Nice work, Paramount.</p>
<p><em>[image: Paramount Pictures]</em></p>
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      <dc:creator>Erick Schonfeld</dc:creator>
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Earlier this month, the founders of Skype (and Joost and Kazaa) <a href="http://techcrunch.com/2010/06/03/rdio-us-launch/">soft-launched</a> their latest startup, an online music subscription and download service called <a href="http://www.rdio.com/">Rdio</a>. It is still invite-only, but I've been testing it out for the last few days.  My initial take: Until Apple launches iTunes as a <a href="http://techcrunch.com/2010/01/20/itunes-dot-com-cloud/">jukebox in the cloud</a>, it could learn a few things from Rdio.  While the new music streaming and download service has many shortcomings, it points to how digital music should be consumed on the Web and mobile devices.

Rdio is literally an online jukebox with 5 million songs which you can stream in full.  It competes with <a href="http://www.rhapsody.com/">Rhapsody</a> and <a href="http://www.spotify.com/">Spotify</a> (which is not yet launched in the U.S.). You pay $5 a month for Web-only access, and $10 a month to access the service on a mobile phone through Android, Blackberry, or iPhone apps.  Curiously, <a href="http://techcrunch.com/2010/06/11/rdio-silence-iphone-app-delay/">Apple won't approve</a> the latest update to the iPhone app.  Finally, there is a small desktop AIR app that lets you go through your songs and sync to iTunes.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techcrunch.com&blog=11718616&post=190314&subd=tctechcrunch&ref=&feed=1" />]]>
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<p>Earlier this month, the founders of Skype (and Joost and Kazaa) <a href="http://techcrunch.com/2010/06/03/rdio-us-launch/">soft-launched</a> their latest startup, an online music subscription and download service called <a href="http://www.rdio.com/">Rdio</a>. It is still invite-only, but I&#8217;ve been testing it out for the last few days.  My initial take: Until Apple launches iTunes as a <a href="http://techcrunch.com/2010/01/20/itunes-dot-com-cloud/">jukebox in the cloud</a>, it could learn a few things from Rdio.  While the new music streaming and download service has many shortcomings, it points to how digital music should be consumed on the Web and mobile devices.</p>
<p>Rdio is literally an online jukebox with 5 million songs which you can stream in full.  It competes with <a href="http://www.rhapsody.com/">Rhapsody</a> and <a href="http://www.spotify.com/">Spotify</a> (which is not yet launched in the U.S.). You pay $5 a month for Web-only access, and $10 a month to access the service on a mobile phone through Android, Blackberry, or iPhone apps.  Curiously, <a href="http://techcrunch.com/2010/06/11/rdio-silence-iphone-app-delay/">Apple won&#8217;t approve</a> the latest update to the iPhone app.  Finally, there is a small desktop AIR app that lets you go through your songs and sync to iTunes.</p>
<p>One of the first things you do when you sign up for Rdio is match up your iTunes song library to the service, where it is stored in your collection.  All of the songs which Rdio can match are available in your collection for streaming.  One thing Rdio has over the original Joost video service at launch is that it is coming out of the gate with great licensing deals.  I&#8217;d say it matched between 70 and 80 percent of my iTunes songs.  All the major label artists are there, but it is missing some key indie bands like <em>The Pixies</em> and <em>Vampire Weekend</em>.  Over time, these gaps should disappear.</p>
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<p>Any album or song on Rdio can also be added  to your Collection, which has a handy bubble visualization showing the artists you play the most as the biggest bubbles.  There is a list view as well.  The Collection serves as a way to bookmark the songs you own or like the most.  But there are other ways to find and organize songs, including search, album charts, recommendations, and playlists.</p>
<p>Rdio has a social layer built into every part of the service.  Which brings us to the other thing you do immediately when you sign up: find friends and people to follow.  The reason you want to jump-start your collection with what is already in your iTunes (or Windows Media Player) library is so that other people can see what kind of music you listen to.</p>
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<p>It is possible to find your Twitter or Facebook friends who are also on Rdio and follow them for starters (warning: you may be horrified at what your Internet friends actually listen to).  You can create your own playlists or listen to other people&#8217;s playlists.  Each song and album also has stats showing how many times it&#8217;s been played, as well as the number of listeners, reviews, collections, and playlists it is associated with.  If you click on a stat, it shows you the underlying people, playlists, or collections, which is another way to find people to follow or playlists to subscribe to.  </p>
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<p>Once you start following people that helps you find new music.  The home page of Rdio highlights albums in heavy rotation among your music network (so don&#8217;t follow someone with crap taste in music just because you are Twitter buddies).  You can also toggle to see just the music you&#8217;ve been playing a lot recently, or the songs popular across all of Rdio.  Below the heavy rotation is the recent activity stream from you and your network on Rdio—songs played, added to collections, playlists created, etc.  It is basically organized as a music stream.  But unlike the text-only streams on Twitter, Rdio uses the album covers to make browsing the stream a more visual experience.  Of course, when you click on an album cover, you get to listen to the stream as well.  Rdio also uses your collection and listening history to recommend new music to you based on what other people with similar music taste seem to like.  For each recommendation, Rdio will tell you the artist in your collection or listening history it matches. </p>
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<p>As I mentioned, Rdio isn&#8217;t perfect.  The navigation takes some getting used to.  For one thing, there is no easy way to get back to the main home page. I found myself resorting to clicking on the Rdio logo at the top left for lack of a home button.  From the homepage dashboard there are quick links to your collection, playlists, people you follow, and reviews (if you are into that).  There are also links to your &#8220;queue&#8221; (which is a less formal type of playlist where you can just dump songs and albums you want to play continuously).  The fact that there is both a queue and playlists seems redundant.  That is, until you launch the desktop AIR app.  All it does is play songs from your queue and ones you&#8217;ve purchased (MP3 downloads cost $0.99 to $1.29). It can&#8217;t access your playlists, search, or any of the social features.</p>
<p>The iPhone app is a more fully featured.  It&#8217;s got your collection (which overlaps with the songs in your iPod app), playlists, search, and iTunes syncing.  The social features are also missing, but perhaps that is what is in the yet-to-be-approved update.  The idea of being able to choose from 5 million songs to stream to a device in your pocket is a powerful one.  My jukebox in the sky should be accessible anywhere I am.  </p>
<p>But would I pay $10 a month for that?  I don&#8217;t know.  That is 12 albums a year, and I don&#8217;t buy that many albums anymore.  But I would pay $5 a month for the Web-only version.  That seems to me to be the right price point.  The way I would price it is if a Web-only subscriber ends up buying more than six albums a year on top of that Rdio should upgrade them for free to the mobile access plan. After all, the point of having so many songs at your fingertips with social recommendations built into the service is so that it is easier to discover great music.  If Rdio helps me discover new songs I love with little or no effort, I would happily pay extra to own them as downloads. </p>
<p>Ultimately, the music industry needs to look at free or low-cost streaming services as a discovery mechanism which leads to album and ticket sales.  Rdio is a good first step in that direction.</p>
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      <title>In The Midst Of Microsoft’s Office 2010 Launch, Google Upgrades Sharing For Docs</title>
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        <![CDATA[<img src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2010/06/official-google-blog_-easier-sharing-in-google-docs1.png" class="shot2">It's probably not a coincidence that Google is making a significant upgrade to Docs the same week that Microsoft<a href="http://techcrunch.com/2010/06/15/microsoft-office-2010-now-available-worldwide/"> rolls out Office 2010</a> to the public Not to be left out, the search giant has <a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/06/easier-sharing-in-google-docs.html">modified</a> sharing, visibility and the interface for Google Docs, which is also part of its Office 2010-competitor, Google Apps. 

Google is now giving users more clear cut options for sharing documents: private; anyone with a link; or public on the web. All documents start out as private, with the creator as the sole administrator. You can then share your document by setting it as “Anyone with the link,” which allows anyone who knows the web address or URL of that doc to view it. You can set your document as 'public on the web,' which allows anyone to find the document on the web. Google says that Public docs are automatically indexed by search engines so they may appear in search results.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techcrunch.com&blog=11718616&post=190357&subd=tctechcrunch&ref=&feed=1" />]]>
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        <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2010/06/official-google-blog_-easier-sharing-in-google-docs1.png" class="shot2">It&#8217;s probably not a coincidence that Google is making a significant upgrade to Docs the same week that Microsoft<a href="http://techcrunch.com/2010/06/15/microsoft-office-2010-now-available-worldwide/"> rolls out Office 2010</a> to the public. Not to be left out, the search giant has <a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/06/easier-sharing-in-google-docs.html">modified</a> sharing, visibility and the interface for Google Docs, which is also part of its Office 2010-competitor, Google Apps. </p>
<p>Google is now giving users more clear cut options for sharing documents: private; anyone with a link; or public on the web. All documents start out as private, with the creator as the sole administrator. You can then share your document by setting it as “Anyone with the link,” which allows anyone who knows the web address or URL of that doc to view it. You can set your document as &#8216;public on the web,&#8217; which allows anyone to find the document on the web. Google says that Public docs are automatically indexed by search engines so they may appear in search results.</p>
<p>Google is also enhancing the visibility options for docs, making it fairly clear  to the administrator which document is set to private, semi-private or public. The options now appear next to every doc title and in the docs list. You can also see the full list of editors and viewers by clicking on the &#8216;visibility option&#8217; next to the doc’s title or on the Share button. And Google has improved the sharing interface and allows you to reset any link you&#8217;ve shared, so that you can move a document back to private even if you&#8217;ve shared the document. </p>
<p>It&#8217;s probably wise that Google has improved its sharing options, considering that Microsoft is now attacking Google in the cloud with the <a href="http://techcrunch.com/2009/07/13/the-complete-guide-to-microsofts-office-2010/">web-version of Office 2010.</a> It should be interesting to see if the use of Word will gain traction in the cloud as Office 2010 is rolled out more widely. </p>
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      <title>MySpace Co-President Jason Hirschhorn Out</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 17 Jun 2010 20:21:26 +0000</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Michael Arrington</dc:creator>
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        <![CDATA[<img src='http://www.crunchbase.com/assets/images/resized/0004/2518/42518v2-max-250x250.jpg' class="snap_nopreview shot" alt="" /><a href="http://techcrunch.com/2010/05/24/myspace-co-presidents-talk-about-the-future-and-each-other/">Less than a month ago</a> I asked the MySpace Co-Presidents, <a href="http://www.crunchbase.com/person/mike-jones">Mike Jones</a> and <a href="http://www.crunchbase.com/person/jason-hirschhorn">Jason Hirschhorn</a> (pictured left), if it was possible to effectively run a company with two equal leaders. Their answer - they've made it work. I asked if they were both there for the long term. Jones said <em>"Assuming News Corp. will have us we're going to stay heavily engaged."</em>

Well, you know what they say about assumptions. Tomorrow MySpace will announce the departure of Jason Hirschhorn, we've heard from multiple sources inside and outside of MySpace. And we've also heard that Jones will be named CEO.

The two were <a href="http://techcrunch.com/2010/02/10/myspace-ceo-owen-van-natta-steps-down/">promoted</a> to co-presidents in February when previous CEO <a href="http://www.crunchbase.com/person/owen-van-natta">Owen Van Natta</a> was fired. Van Natta held the CEO spot for less than a year - he was <a href="http://techcrunch.com/2009/04/27/threes-company-meet-your-new-myspace-executive-team/">hired to replace</a> founding CEO <a href="http://www.crunchbase.com/person/chris-dewolfe">Chris DeWolfe</a> in April 2009.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techcrunch.com&blog=11718616&post=190360&subd=tctechcrunch&ref=&feed=1" />]]>
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        <![CDATA[<p><img src='http://www.crunchbase.com/assets/images/resized/0004/2518/42518v2-max-250x250.jpg' class="snap_nopreview shot" alt="" /><a href="http://techcrunch.com/2010/05/24/myspace-co-presidents-talk-about-the-future-and-each-other/">Less than a month ago</a> I asked the MySpace Co-Presidents, <a href="http://www.crunchbase.com/person/mike-jones">Mike Jones</a> and <a href="http://www.crunchbase.com/person/jason-hirschhorn">Jason Hirschhorn</a> (pictured left), if it was possible to effectively run a company with two equal leaders. Their answer &#8211; they&#8217;ve made it work. I asked if they were both there for the long term. Jones said <em>&#8220;Assuming News Corp. will have us we&#8217;re going to stay heavily engaged.&#8221;</em> I&#8217;ve added the video clip below.</p>
<p>Well, you know what they say about assumptions. Tomorrow MySpace will announce the departure of Jason Hirschhorn, we&#8217;ve heard from multiple sources inside and outside of MySpace. And we&#8217;ve also heard that Jones will be named CEO sometime soon, although likely not tomorrow.</p>
<p>The two were <a href="http://techcrunch.com/2010/02/10/myspace-ceo-owen-van-natta-steps-down/">promoted</a> to co-presidents in February when previous CEO <a href="http://www.crunchbase.com/person/owen-van-natta">Owen Van Natta</a> was fired. Van Natta held the CEO spot for less than a year &#8211; he was <a href="http://techcrunch.com/2009/04/27/threes-company-meet-your-new-myspace-executive-team/">hired to replace</a> founding CEO <a href="http://www.crunchbase.com/person/chris-dewolfe">Chris DeWolfe</a> in April 2009.</p>
<p>Yes, it&#8217;s been musical chairs at MySpace. Or, a less charitable description: rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.</p>
<p>The company hasn&#8217;t just lost the cultural significance of being the top social network &#8211; a title they lost to Facebook long ago. They are also <a href="http://techcrunch.com/2009/05/18/myspace-is-in-real-trouble-if-these-page-view-declines-dont-reverse/">losing</a> page views and users at a rapid clip. MySpace Music is <a href="http://techcrunch.com/2009/11/11/free-streaming-may-be-soon-be-history-spotify-delays-u-s-launch-myspace-may-move-to-pay-model/">hemorrhaging</a> money to the labels. And their lucrative search deal with Google is <a href="http://techcrunch.com/2009/05/13/googles-last-myspace-payment-75-million-on-june-20-2010/">ending</a> in two weeks, and the company has yet to announce how they&#8217;ll replace that revenue. </p>
<p>For all those reasons and more, I&#8217;ve argued passionately that MySpace <a href="http://techcrunch.com/2010/02/11/the-only-chance-for-myspace-is-to-be-free-of-news-corp/">needs to be spun off into a private company</a>. They can&#8217;t please News Corp. and find a way to win with users at the same time. Publicly Jones says he disagrees. Who knows what he thinks privately.</p>
<p><strong>Update:</strong> Statement by <a href="http://www.crunchbase.com/person/jonathan-miller">Jon Miller</a>, Digital Chief for News Corp.:</p>
<blockquote><p>Statement from Jon Miller, Chief Digital Officer, News Corporation Confirming the Departure of Jason Hirschhorn, Co-President of MySpace</p>
<p>Los Angeles, CA , June 17, 2010 &#8212; We fully respect Jason’s decision to leave and his personal desire to return to New York.   As many people know, Jason is like family to me, and as expected, he’s done everything we asked of him and more.  We’re incredibly grateful for the passion and enthusiasm he brought to the company.  And as I know Jason agrees, Mike Jones has done an outstanding job leading MySpace into its next evolution and is the right person to take the reins.  There are no plans to bring in additional management.</p></blockquote>
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      <title>WordPress 3.0 Is Now Available</title>
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        <![CDATA[<img class="shot2" src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2010/06/wordpress30.jpg" alt="" /><a href="http://www.wordpress.com">WordPress</a>, the world's most popular blogging software, has just released WordPress 3.0, codenamed Thelonious — the software's thirteenth release in its history.  Beta releases have been available for the last few months, but now it's official. To give an idea of how popular WordPress is, version 2.9 was downloaded 10.3 million times.

Among the features listed in the official <a href="http://wordpress.org/development/2010/06/thelonious/">blog post</a>: a default theme called <a href="http://2010dev.wordpress.com/">Twenty Ten</a> (the old default was looking quite dated), a lighter interface, and 1,217 bug fixes. Theming has gotten quite a bit of attention, with APIs that make it easier for theme designers to allow for customized menus, post types, headings, backgrounds, and more).<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techcrunch.com&blog=11718616&post=190352&subd=tctechcrunch&ref=&feed=1" />]]>
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        <![CDATA[<p><img class="shot2" src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2010/06/wordpress30.jpg" alt="" /><a href="http://www.wordpress.com">WordPress</a>, the world&#8217;s most popular blogging software, has just released WordPress 3.0, codenamed Thelonious — the software&#8217;s thirteenth release in its history.  Beta releases have been available for the last few months, but now it&#8217;s official. To give an idea of how popular WordPress is, version 2.9 was downloaded 10.3 million times.</p>
<p>Among the features listed in the official <a href="http://wordpress.org/development/2010/06/thelonious/">blog post</a>: a default theme called <a href="http://2010dev.wordpress.com/">Twenty Ten</a> (the old default was looking quite dated), a lighter interface, and 1,217 bug fixes. Theming has gotten quite a bit of attention, with APIs that make it easier for theme designers to allow for customized menus, post types, headings, backgrounds, and more.</p>
<p>Another big change is the fusing of WordPress Multi User (MU) and the core WordPress install.  WordPress MU is a fork of WordPress that allows for one install to administer multiple (even millions) of blogs, but until now it was separate from &#8216;regular&#8217; WordPress. Now you&#8217;ll get the functionality of both from the same install.</p>
<p>One other interesting point: the WordPress blog notes that the team is going to &#8220;take a release cycle off&#8221; to focus on the things &#8220;around WordPress&#8221; as opposed to the platform itself. From the post:</p>
<blockquote><p>Over the next three months we’re going to split into ninja/pirate teams focused on different areas of the around-WordPress experience, including the showcase, Codex, forums, profiles, update and compatibility APIs, theme directory, plugin directory, mailing lists, core plugins, wordcamp.org… the possibilities are endless.</p></blockquote>
<p>Here&#8217;s a video showcasing some of 3.0&#8242;s new features:<br />
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<embed id="video1" src="http://v.wordpress.com/wp-content/plugins/video/flvplayer.swf?ver=1.21&#038;guid=BQtfIEY1&#038;width=400&#038;height=224&#038;locksize=no&#038;dynamicseek=false&#038;qc_publisherId=p-18-mFEk4J448M" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="224" wmode="transparent" seamlesstabbing="true" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" overstretch="true"" title="Introducing WordPress 3.0 \&quot;Thelonious\&quot;"></embed>
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<p>For a look at how WordPress has evolved, check out our post detailing <a href="http://techcrunch.com/2005/12/28/wordpress-20-the-good-and-the-bad-2/">WordPress 2.0</a>, which we covered back in December 2005.</p>
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Leaks happen -- especially in the mobile world. There are just too many people involved in the process of creating a mobile device to keep things under wraps. Take any given new phone's OS installation package (known as its "ROM"), for example; when something is as easily copied and distributed as any other piece of software, it's bound to find its way out eventually.

When these ROMs pop up on developer/hacker forums, it's generally no big deal -- in most cases, the manufacturer doesn't notice or, if they do, don't bother to do anything about it. Once someone makes an effort to gather up all these ROMs and distribute them from one unified outlet, however, things get hairy. Such is the case for the popular HTC ROM distribution site Shipped-ROMs, who allegedly just received a Cease &#38; Desist order straight from the desk of HTC's Legal Counsel.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techcrunch.com&blog=11718616&post=190348&subd=tctechcrunch&ref=&feed=1" />]]>
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<p>Leaks happen &#8212; especially in the mobile world. There are just too many people involved in the process of creating a mobile device to keep things under wraps. Take any given new phone&#8217;s OS installation package (known as its &#8220;ROM&#8221;), for example; when something is as easily copied and distributed as any other piece of software, it&#8217;s bound to find its way out eventually.</p>
<p>When these ROMs pop up on developer/hacker forums, it&#8217;s generally no big deal &#8212; in most cases, the manufacturer doesn&#8217;t notice or, if they do, don&#8217;t bother to do anything about it. Once someone makes an effort to gather up all these ROMs and distribute them from one unified outlet, however, things get hairy. Such is the case for the popular HTC ROM distribution site Shipped-ROMs, who allegedly just received a Cease &amp; Desist order straight from the desk of HTC&#8217;s Legal Counsel.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.mobilecrunch.com/2010/06/17/htc-threatens-handset-hackers-with-legal-action-for-distributing-roms/">Read the rest at MobileCrunch &gt;&gt;</a></p>
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      <title>Facebook Also Said To Have A Deal With Localeze For Facebook Places</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 17 Jun 2010 19:04:19 +0000</pubDate>
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        <![CDATA[<img class="alignright size-full wp-image-190343" title="fbp" src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2010/06/fbp.png" alt="" />On Monday, <a href="http://techcrunch.com/2010/06/14/twitter-foursquare-gowalla/">Twitter rolled out Twitter Places</a>, its attempt to add a layer of actual venues to its geolocation data. This was made possible by a deal with <a href="http://www.localeze.com/">Localeze</a>, a local business listing service with over 14 million businesses in their database. Now we're hearing that Facebook has struck a similar deal with Localeze to roll out their own Places area in the near future.

Essentially, what we're hearing is that Facebook will use this data to populate some new kind of fan pages for places, that businesses will be able to then claim on the network. This is in line with the information <a href="http://techcrunch.com/2010/05/09/facebook-places-check-in/">we uncovered back in May</a> on Facebook's mobile site. The code on that page (since removed) pointed to a previously unseen Places tab coming to Facebook.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techcrunch.com&blog=11718616&post=190339&subd=tctechcrunch&ref=&feed=1" />]]>
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        <![CDATA[<p><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-190343" title="fbp" src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2010/06/fbp.png?w=300&#038;h=322" alt="" width="300" height="322">On Monday, <a href="http://techcrunch.com/2010/06/14/twitter-foursquare-gowalla/">Twitter rolled out Twitter Places</a>, its attempt to add a layer of actual venues to its geolocation data. This was made possible by a deal with <a href="http://www.localeze.com/">Localeze</a>, a local business listing service with over 14 million businesses in their database. Now we&#8217;re hearing that Facebook has struck a similar deal with Localeze to roll out their own Places area in the near future.</p>
<p>Essentially, what we&#8217;re hearing is that Facebook will use this data to populate some new kind of fan pages for places, that businesses will be able to then claim on the network. This is in line with the information <a href="http://techcrunch.com/2010/05/09/facebook-places-check-in/">we uncovered back in May</a> on Facebook&#8217;s mobile site. The code on that page (since removed) pointed to a previously unseen Places tab coming to Facebook.</p>
<p>That code also pointed to some check-in functionality coming to Facebook &#8212; obviously, that has yet to show up on the service. We&#8217;ve heard whispers that Facebook&#8217;s big location push may have been postponed due to the recent privacy flare ups. But more recently we&#8217;ve heard that Facebook was also missing a vital component needed for any kind of location service: place data. Obviously, this deal with Localeze would solve that problem.</p>
<p>Still, just how soon this new Facebook Places area would launch is not clear. One source thinks it will be very soon, another thinks it could be several weeks before all the data population occurs.</p>
<p>We&#8217;ve reached out to both Facebook and Localeze for comment, but have yet to hear back.</p>
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      <title>Like This Wouldn’t Happen: AT&amp;T Canceling Orders Made “In Error”</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 17 Jun 2010 18:39:12 +0000</pubDate>
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        <![CDATA[<img src="http://www.mobilecrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/computer_error.jpeg">Reader Matthew just confirmed our worst fears: not only was the pre-order experience at <a HREF="http://crunchgear.com/tag/Apple">Apple</a> and AT&#38;T a big pile of <a HREF="http://crunchgear.com/search/pre-order">poopfail</a>, they've started cancelling "orders made in error." Why in error? Well, presumably because things have gotten so fouled with eligibility in their systems that folks are getting knocked out of the pre-order queue. 

Here's the email Matthew got today:

<blockquote>Your recently placed AT&#38;T Premier order was cancelled. If you believe your order was cancelled in error, please call us at 1-866-499-8008 Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. Eastern Time. 

Web Order Number: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
Thank you,
The AT&#38;T Premier Team</blockquote><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techcrunch.com&blog=11718616&post=190340&subd=tctechcrunch&ref=&feed=1" />]]>
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        <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.mobilecrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/computer_error.jpeg">Reader Matthew just confirmed our worst fears: not only was the pre-order experience at <a href="http://crunchgear.com/tag/Apple">Apple</a> and AT&amp;T a big pile of <a href="http://crunchgear.com/search/pre-order">poopfail</a>, they&#8217;ve started cancelling &#8220;orders made in error.&#8221; Why in error? Well, presumably because things have gotten so fouled with eligibility in their systems that folks are getting knocked out of the pre-order queue. </p>
<p>Here&#8217;s the email Matthew got today:</p>
<blockquote><p>Your recently placed AT&amp;T Premier order was cancelled. If you believe your order was cancelled in error, please call us at 1-866-499-8008 Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. Eastern Time. </p>
<p>Web Order Number: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX<br />
Thank you,<br />
The AT&amp;T Premier Team</p></blockquote>
<p><a href="http://www.mobilecrunch.com/2010/06/17/like-this-wouldnt-happen-att-canceling-orders-made-in-error/">Read more&#8230;</a> </p>
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      <title>At The World Series Of Poker Two Founders Are Betting The Company — Literally</title>
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        <![CDATA[<img class="alignright size-full wp-image-190332" title="rounders" src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2010/06/rounders.jpeg" alt="" />You've heard the term "betting the company," but have you ever known anyone who has actually done that? I mean literally. As in, they're playing poker with shares of the company on the line. Because that's exactly what <a href="http://yammer.com">Yammer</a> founder <a href="http://www.crunchbase.com/person/david-sacks">David Sacks</a> and <a href="http://mahalo.com">Mahalo</a> founder <a href="http://www.crunchbase.com/person/jason-calacanis">Jason Calacanis</a> are doing at <a href="http://www.wsop.com/">The World Series of Poker</a> in Las Vegas.

When Calacanis first <a href="http://twitter.com/Jason/status/16345244981">tweeted</a> about it, I thought it was a joke. He wrote, "<em>Got a sick @WSOP Main Event Prop bet with @DavidSacks: 10,000 shares of Mahalo vs. 10,000 shares of @Yammer--whoever lasts longer #poker</em>". But I emailed Sacks to confirm, and sure enough, the bet is on.<em> "Of course. Sucker born every minute</em>," Sacks wrote to us. He continued, "<em>To be clear, these are personally-owned shares we're betting</em>."<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techcrunch.com&blog=11718616&post=190331&subd=tctechcrunch&ref=&feed=1" />]]>
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        <![CDATA[<p><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-190332" title="rounders" src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2010/06/rounders.jpeg?w=300&#038;h=239" alt="" width="300" height="239">You&#8217;ve heard the term &#8220;betting the company,&#8221; but have you ever known anyone who has actually done that? I mean literally. As in, they&#8217;re playing poker with shares of the company on the line. Because that&#8217;s exactly what <a href="http://yammer.com">Yammer</a> founder <a href="http://www.crunchbase.com/person/david-sacks">David Sacks</a> and <a href="http://mahalo.com">Mahalo</a> founder <a href="http://www.crunchbase.com/person/jason-calacanis">Jason Calacanis</a> are doing at <a href="http://www.wsop.com/">The World Series of Poker</a> in Las Vegas.</p>
<p>When Calacanis first <a href="http://twitter.com/Jason/status/16345244981">tweeted</a> about it, I thought it was a joke. He wrote, &#8220;<em>Got a sick @WSOP Main Event Prop bet with @DavidSacks: 10,000 shares of Mahalo vs. 10,000 shares of @Yammer&#8211;whoever lasts longer #poker</em>&#8220;. But I emailed Sacks to confirm, and sure enough, the bet is on.<em> &#8220;Of course. Sucker born every minute</em>,&#8221; Sacks wrote to us. He continued, &#8220;<em>To be clear, these are personally-owned shares we&#8217;re betting</em>.&#8221;</p>
<p>Of course, you have to assume they&#8217;re not betting the <em>entire</em> company. I asked Sacks exactly what percentage of Yammer 10,000 shares constitues. Not surprisingly, he declined to answer that. But you&#8217;d have to think it&#8217;s a relatively small share or the Boards of the two companies might have something to say about the deal. Can you imagine if Calacanis took a controlling stake of Yammer because he lasted longer in the World Series of Poker? That&#8217;d likely be worth a lot more than the grand prize if he won the entire tournament.</p>
<p>Obviously, this isn&#8217;t an official bet for WSOP, it&#8217;s a side bet the two men are making. This is a much more interesting way to trade shares than <a href="http://www.secondmarket.com/">SecondMarket</a>.</p>
<p>Some may recall that Yammer had a <a href="http://techcrunch.com/2009/07/09/while-sacks-plays-poker-yammer-burns/">bad spell of downtime</a> while Sacks was playing in the tournament last year. Calacanis has played before as well. Yes, it&#8217;s a little <a href="http://techcrunch.com/2009/07/05/way-too-competitive-tech-gurus-flock-to-world-series-of-poker/">ridiculous</a>.</p>
<div class="cbw snap_nopreview"><div class="cbw_header"><script src="http://www.crunchbase.com/javascripts/widget.js" type="text/javascript"></script><div class="cbw_header_text"><a href="http://www.crunchbase.com/">CrunchBase Information</a></div></div><div class="cbw_content"><div class="cbw_subheader"><a href="http://www.crunchbase.com/company/yammer">Yammer</a></div><div class="cbw_subcontent"><script src="http://www.crunchbase.com/cbw/company/yammer.js" type="text/javascript"></script></div><div class="cbw_subheader"><a href="http://www.crunchbase.com/company/mahalo">Mahalo</a></div><div class="cbw_subcontent"><script src="http://www.crunchbase.com/cbw/company/mahalo.js" type="text/javascript"></script></div><div class="cbw_footer">Information provided by <a href="http://www.crunchbase.com/">CrunchBase</a></div></div></div>
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        <![CDATA[<img src="http://www.techcrunchit.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/Online-Portals-for-Group-Collaboration-and-Content-Sharing.png" alt="" title="Online Portals for Group Collaboration and Content Sharing" width="170" height="56" class="alignright size-full wp-image-5452" /><a href="http://www.zoho.com/wiki/">Zohi Wiki</a>, which originally <a href="http://techcrunch.com/2006/12/20/zoho-goes-wiki/">launched in 2006</a>, is <a href="http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/home/permalink/?ndmViewId=news_view&#38;newsId=20100617005408&#38;newsLang=en">getting an upgrade</a> today, with additional collaboration features, access controls and more.  

Zoho has added workspaces within Wiki to allow teams to have their own groups within organization wikis. Each workspace has its own administrative and customization options and can serve as a separate portal. Zoho has also added more in-depth access controls to wikis, which allows administrators to set permissions for Workspaces, multiple groups, individuals, domains, public, and for users within an organization. Admins can also assign separate permissions for edit, view, create and delete functions.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techcrunch.com&blog=11718616&post=190327&subd=tctechcrunch&ref=&feed=1" />]]>
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Zoho has added workspaces within Wiki to allow teams to have their own groups within organization wikis. Each workspace has its own administrative and customization options and can serve as a separate portal. Zoho has also added more in-depth access controls to wikis, which allows administrators to set permissions for Workspaces, multiple groups, individuals, domains, public, and for users within an organization. Admins can also assign separate permissions for edit, view, create and delete functions.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techcrunch.com&blog=11718616&post=190327&subd=tctechcrunch&ref=&feed=1" />
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      <title>Droid X Lands In A Cornfield Near You</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 17 Jun 2010 15:57:50 +0000</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>John Biggs</dc:creator>
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      <description><![CDATA[<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/Screen-shot-2010-06-17-at-11.48.01-AM-620x344.jpg">We know that Verizon is launching <A HREF="http://crunchgear.com/tag/Droid">Droid</A> X on the 23 - at least when it comes to press access - but it looks like they're announcing to the rest of the world as well, right now, via a Flash-rich <A HREF="http://phones.verizonwireless.com/droid/x/">teaser site</A> that allows you to pop in your email for more info.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techcrunch.com&blog=11718616&post=190325&subd=tctechcrunch&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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        <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/Screen-shot-2010-06-17-at-11.48.01-AM-620x344.jpg">We know that Verizon is launching <a href="http://crunchgear.com/tag/Droid">Droid</a> X on the 23 &#8211; at least when it comes to press access &#8211; but it looks like they&#8217;re announcing to the rest of the world as well, right now, via a Flash-rich <a href="http://phones.verizonwireless.com/droid/x/">teaser site</a> that allows you to pop in your email for more info.</p>
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      <title>Apptera Raises Another $10 Million For Its Voice &amp; Visual Mobile Advertising Network</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 17 Jun 2010 15:28:04 +0000</pubDate>
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<p>Mobile advertising company <a href="http://www.apptera.com">Apptera</a> has raised <a href="http://www.crunchbase.com/company/apptera">another $10 million</a> in VC funding, we&#8217;ve learned via an <a href="http://secwatch.com/filings/view.jsp?formid=7266229">SEC filing</a>. The startup&#8217;s previous financing round dates back to November 2008, also totaled <a href="http://techcrunch.com/2008/11/19/apptera-raises-105-million-more-to-get-ads-to-your-phone/">about $10 million</a> and came from investors such as <a href="http://www.crunchbase.com/financial-organization/alloy-ventures">Alloy Ventures</a>, <a href="http://www.crunchbase.com/financial-organization/lightspeed-venture-partners">Lightspeed Venture Partners</a> and <a href="http://www.crunchbase.com/financial-organization/walden-international">Walden International</a>.</p>
<p>The company has yet to publicly disclose the new capital injection, but these types of follow-on rounds typically come from existing backers, with maybe one or two additional investors.</p>
<p>Founded in 2001 in Silicon Valley, Apptera operates what it refers to as a &#8216;Voice &amp; Visual Mobile Advertising Network&#8217;, enabling the company to dynamically serve voice ads to callers and enhancing those calls with interactive visual engagements. Callers can opt in to voice ads and have special offers such as coupons and promotional codes, videos, even maps and directions sent direct to their phones, straight away or at a time scheduled in the future.</p>
<p>Publishers in its mobile advertising marketplace include movie ticketing services (such as Movietickets.com, Moviefone and Fandango), free-411 services (e.g. Jingle and AT&amp;T), social voice services and blogs, and widgets on social networks like Facebook and MySpace.</p>
<p>At the help of Apptera we find Henry Vogel, the former eBay exec that was previously chief revenue officer of Quigo Technologies, the ad network company that was acquired by AOL in December of 2007. The rest of the members of the management team have a ton of experience from a variety of positions at companies like Yahoo, Overture, eBay, Meraki, Spot Runner, ESPN, Sony Pictures and iPass under their belts.</p>
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      <title>Google’s Commerce Search For Retailers Now Better And Cheaper</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 17 Jun 2010 14:59:28 +0000</pubDate>
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        <![CDATA[<img src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2010/06/google-commerce-search-update_-logos-and-screenshots.png" class="shot2">For any e-retailer, product search is the foundation of a commerce platform. Many times, a consumer goes directly to the search box to find the object they want. And the ability to easily find products on a retailers site affects the consumer interaction and experience with their site and produces higher conversion rates. Google <a href="http://techcrunch.com/2009/11/04/search-til-you-drop-with-googles-new-commerce-search/">began powering</a> search platforms for retailers last year, with the launch of Commerce Search, a hosted enterprise search product to power online retail stores and e-commerce websites. Today, Google is <a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/06/summer-is-here-and-so-is-google.html">launching</a> the next iteration of Commerce Search which offers retailers a more powerful and less-expensive version of the product. 

The first version of Google Commerce offered a variety of features that are optimized for retail and product search, such as parametric search, sorting of results, spell checker, stemming, and synonym suggestion. The newest version builds on these features, by offering a more in-depth search experience for users and merchants. As Commerce product manager Nitin Mangtani tells me, version 2.0 focuses on enhancing navigation and the user experience. <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techcrunch.com&blog=11718616&post=190282&subd=tctechcrunch&ref=&feed=1" />]]>
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        <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2010/06/google-commerce-search-update_-logos-and-screenshots.png" class="shot2">For any e-retailer, product search is the foundation of a commerce platform. Many times, a consumer goes directly to the search box to find the object they want. And the ability to easily find products on a retailers site affects the consumer interaction and experience with their site and produces higher conversion rates. Google <a href="http://techcrunch.com/2009/11/04/search-til-you-drop-with-googles-new-commerce-search/">began powering</a> search platforms for retailers last year, with the launch of Commerce Search, a hosted enterprise search product to power online retail stores and e-commerce websites. Today, Google is <a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/06/summer-is-here-and-so-is-google.html">launching</a> the next iteration of Commerce Search which offers retailers a more powerful and less-expensive version of the product. </p>
<p>The first version of Google Commerce offered a variety of features that are optimized for retail and product search, such as parametric search, sorting of results, spell checker, stemming, and synonym suggestion. The newest version builds on these features, by offering a more in-depth search experience for users and merchants. As Commerce product manager Nitin Mangtani tells me, version 2.0 focuses on enhancing navigation and the user experience. </p>
<p><strong>The Merchandising Dashboard</strong>: A new merchandising dashboard gives merchants more options within their search portals. Retailers can now rank products, so that certain products rank higher in search results than others. Additionally, retailers can feature promotions and sales within search portals within a given timeline. And retailers can add customized filters or &#8216;facets&#8217; to search, and Google&#8217;s technology will present the appropriate results accordingly. All of these features can be implemented through a rules wizard that requires no custom code so a marketer or merchandiser could easily implement changes.</p>
<p><strong>Search Improvements</strong>: Google is adding realtime query autocompletion, which is a necessary element of any retail site. And Google will customize auto suggestions for each site, depending on the product indexed. Google has also  improved speed of search results in Commerce search, and claim that search results are returned to shoppers in less than a second. </p>
<p><strong>Price Drop</strong>: Google is dropping the price of Commerce search to a pricing model that starts at $25,000 per year. Previously, Commerce search pricing started at $50,000 per year. Pricing is based on total volume of queries and items indexed.</p>
<p>Google Commerce search also integrates Google products like Google Analytics and Google Product Search. Using Commerce, retailers can measure clicks, conversion rates, number of transactions, average order value and other data via Google Analytics. And e-commerce vendors can provide a single feed of products and catelogue items that will power Commerce and indexing of their products on Google Product Search. </p>
<p>Retailers using Commerce search include <a href="http://www.birkenstockusa.com/products/women/sandals">Birkenstock</a>, <a href="http://www.smartfurniture.com/">Smart Furniture </a> and <a href="http://www.coveroo.com/">Coveroo</a>. Google declined to release the exact number of retailers who are using the Commerce search product, but did say that Google is powered enterprise search for 30,000 sites currently. Google also offers a <a href="http://techcrunch.com/2008/06/02/google-launches-hosted-site-search-not-ditching-mini-after-all/">general hosted search product</a> that is used by organizations that want to add customized Google search functionality to their websites. </p>
<p>I&#8217;m curious if Google dropped their price because of a lack of retailers adopting the search product. As the retail industry steadily climbs out of the hole caused by the recession, I still think $25K is a lot to pay for search for smaller retailers. But it&#8217;s good to see that Google is dropping the price to allow for more retailers to use the product. And Google is pushing its product as an easily deployable, user-friendly way to integrate powerful search into a retail site. Google faces competition from <a href="http://www.omniture.com/en/">Omniture</a>, <a href="http://techcrunch.com/2009/11/11/in-time-for-holiday-shopping-season-ibm-upgrades-e-commerce-software-for-retailers/">IBM</a>, <a href="http://www.endeca.com/">Endeca</a> and others.</p>
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The tablet era has just begun, but <a href="http://www.forrester.com/rb/research">Forrester Research</a> is already predicting tablet sales in the U.S. will overtake netbook sales by 2012, and desktop sales by 2015.  At the <a href="http://untethered.thebigmoney.com/">Untethered</a> conference today in New York City, Forrester analyst Sarah Rotman Epps laid out her projections comparing tablet sales to netbooks, laptops, and desktops.  She expects 3.5 million tablets (including the iPad and other tablets) to be sold this year, growing to 20.4 million in 2015.  Meanwhile, she expects desktop sales to drop from  18.7 million units in 2010 to 15.7 million units in 2015.

As a percentage of overall PC sales, tablets will grow from 6 percent this year to 18 percent in 2012 (when netbooks are estimated to account for 17 percent of sales.  The next year, in 2013, tablet sales are projected to outstrip desktop unit sales, 21 percent to 20 percent.  By 2015, tablets will make up 23 percent of PC sales in the U.S., while desktops will be 18 percent and netbooks will be 17 percent.  Only laptops will sell more in the U.S., with a 42 percent market share.  <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techcrunch.com&blog=11718616&post=190283&subd=tctechcrunch&ref=&feed=1" />]]>
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<p>The tablet era has just begun, but <a href="http://www.forrester.com/rb/research">Forrester Research</a> is already predicting tablet sales in the U.S. will overtake netbook sales by 2012, and desktop sales by 2015.  At the <a href="http://untethered.thebigmoney.com/">Untethered</a> conference today in New York City, Forrester analyst Sarah Rotman Epps laid out her projections comparing tablet sales to netbooks, laptops, and desktops.  She expects 3.5 million tablets (including the iPad and other tablets) to be sold this year, growing to 20.4 million in 2015.  Meanwhile, she expects desktop sales to drop from  18.7 million units in 2010 to 15.7 million units in 2015.</p>
<p>As a percentage of overall PC sales, tablets will grow from 6 percent this year to 18 percent in 2012 (when netbooks are estimated to account for 17 percent of sales.  The next year, in 2013, tablet sales are projected to outstrip desktop unit sales, 21 percent to 20 percent.  By 2015, tablets will make up 23 percent of PC sales in the U.S., while desktops will be 18 percent and netbooks will be 17 percent.  Only laptops will sell more in the U.S., with a 42 percent market share.  </p>
<p>The big question is how much of the tablet market can Apple capture?  It has already sold <a href="http://techcrunch.com/2010/05/31/apple-sold-2-million-ipads-in-59-days/">2 million iPads</a>, and could easily blow past Forrester&#8217;s 3.5 million estimate for this year all by itself.  It is not stretch for it to get to 20 million by 2015 either.  So is there room in this market for other tablets, or will Forrester need to increase its estimates?</p>
<p>These projections are for unit sales, not total revenues, but still the expectation that there will be more tablets sold in five years than any other type of computer is stunning.  By 2015, the cumulative number of people using tablets will be 59 million, according to Rotman, which will be larger than the installed base of netbooks (but still just a fraction of the installed base of desktops and laptops).  On a global basis, <a href="http://www.techcrunchit.com/2010/06/15/idc-sees-pc-market-grow-by-19-8-in-2010/">IDC also sees</a> tablets and e-readers driving more growth than netbooks.  Looks like it is time to stick a fork in netbooks.</p>
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      <title>Internet TV Search Engine TVLinks Exits Stealth – Content Goes Missing</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 17 Jun 2010 13:05:38 +0000</pubDate>
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        <![CDATA[<img src="http://eu.techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/Picture-133.png" alt="" title="Picture 133" width="195" height="69" class="shot" />What's this, a European startup thinking global? <a href="http://www.tv-links.eu">TVLinks</a>, an Internet TV guide and video search engine, exits stealth mode today, and says it wants to battle the big US search engines and TV listings sites.

It currently houses a database of over 30,000 movies, and 2,000 TV shows consisting of 80,000 episodes. In total it indexes more than 2,000 content provider websites, some of which it has formal partnerships with - US-centric Amazon VOD, Netflix and Google - while others are, presumably, being scraped or spidered via open APIs. The result is that a lot of content that shows up in search results is likely to be housed on their respective video sharing sites with or without the permission of copyright holders and/or geo-blocked.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techcrunch.com&blog=11718616&post=190271&subd=tctechcrunch&ref=&feed=1" />]]>
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        <![CDATA[<img src="http://eu.techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/Picture-133.png" alt="" title="Picture 133" width="195" height="69" class="shot" />What's this, a European startup thinking global? <a href="http://www.tv-links.eu">TVLinks</a>, an Internet TV guide and video search engine, exits stealth mode today, and says it wants to battle the big US search engines and TV listings sites.

It currently houses a database of over 30,000 movies, and 2,000 TV shows consisting of 80,000 episodes. In total it indexes more than 2,000 content provider websites, some of which it has formal partnerships with - US-centric Amazon VOD, Netflix and Google - while others are, presumably, being scraped or spidered via open APIs. The result is that a lot of content that shows up in search results is likely to be housed on their respective video sharing sites with or without the permission of copyright holders and/or geo-blocked.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techcrunch.com&blog=11718616&post=190271&subd=tctechcrunch&ref=&feed=1" />
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      <title>Pay What You Want for Kiddix OS</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 17 Jun 2010 12:58:42 +0000</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Scott Merrill</dc:creator>
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      <description><![CDATA[<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/kiddix-os.jpg">From <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Bob">Microsoft Bob</a> to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edubuntu">Edubuntu</a> there have been a number of attempts at making computers of various sorts easier and more useful for young people. Another participant in this space is <a href="http://www.kiddix-computing.com/home/index.php">Kiddix</a>, "a complete operating system and software environment for children, built from the ground up with your family's needs and safety in mind." Kiddix is built upon Linux, and aims to present things in a very "kid friendly" way. Through the end of June, Kiddix is running a "<a href="http://www.kiddix-computing.com/osspromo/index.php?promo=10">Pay What You Want</a>" promotion, allowing you to pay any amount to buy their OS.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techcrunch.com&blog=11718616&post=190274&subd=tctechcrunch&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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        <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/kiddix-os.jpg">From <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Bob">Microsoft Bob</a> to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edubuntu">Edubuntu</a> there have been a number of attempts at making computers of various sorts easier and more useful for young people. Another participant in this space is <a href="http://www.kiddix-computing.com/home/index.php">Kiddix</a>, &#8220;a complete operating system and software environment for children, built from the ground up with your family&#8217;s needs and safety in mind.&#8221; Kiddix is built upon Linux, and aims to present things in a very &#8220;kid friendly&#8221; way. Through the end of June, Kiddix is running a &#8220;<a href="http://www.kiddix-computing.com/osspromo/index.php?promo=10">Pay What You Want</a>&#8221; promotion, allowing you to pay any amount to buy their OS.</p>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 17 Jun 2010 12:49:21 +0000</pubDate>
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        <![CDATA[<img class="shot2" src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2010/06/glam.png" alt="" />Digital shopping and fashion empire <a href="http://www.like.com/">Like.com</a> wants to solve a problem for anyone who has ever stood in front of their closet and wondered what they should wear. The startup that has brought us visual shopping engine <a href="http://www.like.com/">Like.com,</a> shopping <a href="http://techcrunch.com/2009/06/03/covetcom-will-be-your-stylist-and-personal-shopper-in-one/">personalization engine</a> <a href="http://www.covet.com/hon?alt=true">Covet.com</a>; street style <a href="http://techcrunch.com/2009/11/18/like-com-acquires-street-style-fashion-community-weardrobe/">social network</a> <a href="http://www.weardrobe.com/">Weardrobe,</a> and <a href="http://techcrunch.com/2010/02/23/like-com-expands-digital-fashion-empire-with-virtual-styling-tool-couturious/">visual styling tool</a> <a href="http://www.couturious.com/">Couturious,</a> launched its live personal stylist and wardrobe consultant in an iPhone, <a href="http://techcrunch.com/2010/04/12/like-com-brings-a-live-glamour-magazine-trained-stylist-to-the-iphone/">Ask A Stylist</a> a few months ago. Now, the startup is <a href="http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/glamour-and-likecom-launch-what-to-wear--the-fashion-qa-website-96560769.html">expanding</a> to the web, with fashion Q&#38;A site, <a href="http://www.whattowear.com/">What To Wear,</a> which takes on a model similar to Q&#38;A site <a href="http://www.quora.com/">Quora.</a>

Similar to Ask A Stylist, What To Wear gives anyone real fashion answers from fashion bloggers and celebrity and Glamour Magazine-trained stylists in real time. For example, you can pose the question; "What should I wear to the Lady Gaga concert tonight?" and a stylist will respond with visual answers of their suggestions. Stylists can explain their recommendations visually through pictures. Of course, these pictures are sometimes linked to products that a user can purchase, and Like will collect an affiliate fee from this transaction.
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        <![CDATA[<p><img class="shot2" src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2010/06/glam.png" alt="" />Digital shopping and fashion empire <a href="http://www.like.com/">Like.com</a> wants to solve a problem for anyone who has ever stood in front of their closet and wondered what they should wear. The startup that has brought us visual shopping engine <a href="http://www.like.com/">Like.com,</a> shopping <a href="http://techcrunch.com/2009/06/03/covetcom-will-be-your-stylist-and-personal-shopper-in-one/">personalization engine</a> <a href="http://www.covet.com/hon?alt=true">Covet.com</a>; street style <a href="http://techcrunch.com/2009/11/18/like-com-acquires-street-style-fashion-community-weardrobe/">social network</a> <a href="http://www.weardrobe.com/">Weardrobe,</a> and <a href="http://techcrunch.com/2010/02/23/like-com-expands-digital-fashion-empire-with-virtual-styling-tool-couturious/">visual styling tool</a> <a href="http://www.couturious.com/">Couturious,</a> launched its live personal stylist and wardrobe consultant in an iPhone, <a href="http://techcrunch.com/2010/04/12/like-com-brings-a-live-glamour-magazine-trained-stylist-to-the-iphone/">Ask A Stylist</a> a few months ago. Now, the startup is <a href="http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/glamour-and-likecom-launch-what-to-wear--the-fashion-qa-website-96560769.html">expanding</a> to the web, with fashion Q&amp;A site, <a href="http://www.whattowear.com/">What To Wear,</a> which takes on a model similar to Q&amp;A site <a href="http://www.quora.com/">Quora.</a></p>
<p>Similar to Ask A Stylist, What To Wear gives anyone real fashion answers from fashion bloggers and celebrity and Glamour Magazine-trained stylists in real time. For example, you can pose the question; &#8220;What should I wear to the Lady Gaga concert tonight?&#8221; and a stylist will respond with visual answers of their suggestions. Stylists can explain their recommendations visually through pictures. Of course, these pictures are sometimes linked to products that a user can purchase, and Like will collect an affiliate fee from this transaction.</p>
<p>Users can remain anonymous on the site or can use  Facebook Connect to sign in, in which case the site will surface questions from your friends as well as the anonymous questions. Certain sylists wWhat To Wear also has a content partnership. Glamour.com will feature guest blogs by What To Wear stylists, and will highlight the most popular and recently asked questions.</p>
<p>The site is part of Like.com&#8217;s CEO and founder Munjal Shah&#8217;s strategy of bringing interactive shopping tools to the online soft goods shopping experience. Couturious shows you how to wear styled looks on the web. Weardrobe helps you to be visually inspired with streetstyle looks;  Covet helps you to visually personalize your shopping (using celebrity photos),  Like.com helps you to visually shop for soft goods and What To Wear and Ask A Stylist add a personalized styling consultant to the mini-empire&#8217;s offerings.</p>
<p>Strategy aside, you have to wonder what these verticals are doing for Like.com. The site&#8217;s traffic, which according to ComScore, is stagnated. ComScore reports that Like saw 2.3 million unique visitors in April, and has flatlined in growth. And the other sites in the family don&#8217;t have nearly as much traffic as Like.com.  But Like, which <a href="http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/11/08/riyas-likecom-is-first-true-visual-image-search/">launched</a> in 2006, says that it has generated $150 million of gross merchandise sales per year. And the startup raised <a href="http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/10/21/likecoms-perfect-timing-32-million-series-c-round/">$32 million</a> in funding during the implosion of the financial industry, with a valuation just north of $100 million.</p>
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      <title>SafetyWeb Secures $8 Million So Parents Can Better Secure Their Kids Online</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 17 Jun 2010 12:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>MG Siegler</dc:creator>
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        <![CDATA[<img class="alignright size-full wp-image-190189" title="Screen shot 2010-06-17 at 12.24.12 AM" src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2010/06/screen-shot-2010-06-17-at-12-24-12-am.png" alt="" />When <a href="http://techcrunch.com/2009/11/24/safetyweb-to-target-anxious-parents/">we last wrote</a> about <a href="http://www.safetyweb.com/">SafetyWeb</a> in November, they hadn't launched yet. Still, that didn't stop <a href="http://www.crunchbase.com/financial-organization/battery-ventures">Battery Ventures</a> from pumping in a $750,000 angel round of funding. Now they're about three months post-launch and investors are clearly liking what they're seeing as the service has just raised another $8 million.

SafetyWeb is a services that allows parents to monitor their children's activity on social networks in realtime. They scan the web for a kid's activity online and send alerts when something notable comes up -- things as mild as negative comments being said, all the way up to a person convicted of a sex crime friending a child on a network. Initially, they're scanning the major social networks (Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, etc), but eventually the plan is to scan all sorts of things -- including the fast-growing geolocation services.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techcrunch.com&blog=11718616&post=190181&subd=tctechcrunch&ref=&feed=1" />]]>
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        <![CDATA[<p><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-190189" title="Screen shot 2010-06-17 at 12.24.12 AM" src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2010/06/screen-shot-2010-06-17-at-12-24-12-am.png?w=225&#038;h=76" alt="" width="225" height="76" />When <a href="http://techcrunch.com/2009/11/24/safetyweb-to-target-anxious-parents/">we last wrote</a> about <a href="http://www.safetyweb.com/">SafetyWeb</a> in November, they hadn&#8217;t launched yet. Still, that didn&#8217;t stop <a href="http://www.crunchbase.com/financial-organization/battery-ventures">Battery Ventures</a> from pumping in a $750,000 angel round of funding. Now they&#8217;re about three months post-launch and investors are clearly liking what they&#8217;re seeing as the service has just raised another $8 million.</p>
<p>SafetyWeb is a services that allows parents to monitor their children&#8217;s activity on social networks in realtime. They scan the web for a kid&#8217;s activity online and send alerts when something notable comes up &#8212; things as mild as negative comments being said, all the way up to a person convicted of a sex crime friending a child on a network. Initially, they&#8217;re scanning the major social networks (Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, etc), but eventually the plan is to scan all sorts of things &#8212; including the fast-growing geolocation services.</p>
<p>Obviously, child safety on the web is a big issue and it&#8217;s growing bigger every day as networks like Facebook approach 500 million users and consume kids&#8217; time. Facebook in particular is interesting because as they continue to grow, they also continue to open up more user data to the public. And that&#8217;s right in SafetyWeb&#8217;s wheelhouse because they search the web for this public information (as opposed to logging in to kids&#8217; accounts). For as little as $10 a month per child, SafetyWeb keeps parents up to date on all this stuff.</p>
<p>&#8220;<em>We generally believe that the whole security market is shifting away from protecting people, not machines.  We really are the first of a kind service that is not just people search posing as a product.  We are the only ones that do both discovery and retrieval of real-time activity without requiring your kid&#8217;s credentials</em>,&#8221; co-founder <a href="http://www.crunchbase.com/person/geoffrey-arone">Geoffrey Arone</a> tells us.</p>
<p>He also hints at some &#8220;big deals&#8221; the service has recently signed, but won&#8217;t say what they are just yet. He will say that right now, there are over 1,000 affiliates distributing SafetyWeb.</p>
<p>This new funding round was led by Battery Ventures with <a href="http://www.crunchbase.com/financial-organization/first-round-capital">First Round Capital</a> also participating. With the funding, Roger Lee from Battery is joining the Board of Directors, and Satya Patel from Battery is being added as an observer. They&#8217;re also adding former MySpace Security Czar, Hemanshu Nigam, to the Board. For the past four years, Nigam has been the Chief Security Officer for all of News Corps&#8217; online properties.</p>
<p>SafetyWeb is up to 12 full time employees now &#8212; some working out of their headquarters in Denver, and the rest in their offices in Menlo Park.</p>
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      <title>Confirmed: Criterion Capital Partners Acquires Bebo From AOL</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 17 Jun 2010 11:25:49 +0000</pubDate>
      <dc:creator>Robin Wauters</dc:creator>
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        <![CDATA[<img src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2010/06/cirterion.png" class="shot2" />The <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/aol-to-sell-bebo-to-criterion-capital-partners-2010-6">rumors</a> are true: hedge fund <a href="http://criterioncp.com/default.htm">Criterion Capital Partners</a> is indeed the buyer of <a href="http://www.crunchbase.com/company/bebo">Bebo</a>. As we reported yesterday, AOL is <a href="http://techcrunch.com/2010/04/06/aol-bebo/">offloading</a> the social networking service for <a href="http://techcrunch.com/2010/06/16/aol-to-sell-bebo-for-around-10-million/">less than $10 million</a> (other media are reporting a purchase price of <a href="http://www.pehub.com/74519/additional-details-on-aols-bebo-sale/">around $2.5 million</a>).

To remind you: AOL <a href="http://techcrunch.com/2008/03/13/aol-buys-bebo-for-750-million/">paid $850 million</a> for Bebo back in 2008. Ouch indeed.

In a <a href="http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/home/permalink/?ndmViewId=news_view&#38;newsId=20100617005658&#38;newsLang=en">press release</a> that just went out, Criterion acknowledges that it has acquired the Bebo business from AOL and that it will "assume the rights and complete operating control over the global social platform business".<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techcrunch.com&blog=11718616&post=190247&subd=tctechcrunch&ref=&feed=1" />]]>
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        <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2010/06/cirterion.png" class="shot2" />The <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/aol-to-sell-bebo-to-criterion-capital-partners-2010-6">rumors</a> are true: hedge fund <a href="http://criterioncp.com/default.htm">Criterion Capital Partners</a> is indeed the buyer of <a href="http://www.crunchbase.com/company/bebo">Bebo</a>. As we reported yesterday, AOL is <a href="http://techcrunch.com/2010/04/06/aol-bebo/">offloading</a> the social networking service for <a href="http://techcrunch.com/2010/06/16/aol-to-sell-bebo-for-around-10-million/">less than $10 million</a> (other media are reporting a purchase price of <a href="http://www.pehub.com/74519/additional-details-on-aols-bebo-sale/">around $2.5 million</a>).</p>
<p>To remind you: AOL <a href="http://techcrunch.com/2008/03/13/aol-buys-bebo-for-750-million/">paid $850 million</a> for Bebo back in 2008. Ouch indeed.</p>
<p>In a <a href="http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/home/permalink/?ndmViewId=news_view&amp;newsId=20100617005658&amp;newsLang=en">press release</a> that just went out, Criterion acknowledges that it has acquired the Bebo business from AOL and that it will &#8220;assume the rights and complete operating control over the global social platform business&#8221;.</p>
<p>The acquisition and financing was led by CCP partner <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/adamelevin">Adam Levin</a> in partnership with business strategist <a href="http://www.crunchbase.com/person/paul-abramowitz">Paul Abramowitz</a> and web entrepreneur <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/richhecker">Richard Hecker</a>. </p>
<p>Criterion Capital Partners will take over Bebo’s global operations immediately and retain its San Francisco-based headquarters. </p>
<p>Exact terms of the deal are not being disclosed by either party, but AOL CEO <a href="http://www.crunchbase.com/person/tim-armstrong">Tim Armstrong</a> sent a note to all employees this morning that suggests our earlier reports that the ability <a href="http://techcrunch.com/2010/03/10/aol-bebo-tax-abaondon">to offset</a> almost the whole sum it paid for Bebo as a tax loss played a big role are correct.</p>
<p>A couple of paragraphs from said note (emphasis ours):</p>
<blockquote><p>In April we communicated the fact that Bebo was among the assets we<br />
would be not be keeping as part of our main portfolio of businesses.<br />
At that time, we indicated that we hoped to finish our strategic<br />
evaluation by the end of May, which we did. Today we are announcing<br />
that we completed the sale of substantially all of the assets of Bebo,<br />
Inc. to Criterion Capital Partners, LLC.</p>
<p>This sale is important for Bebo’s users and for AOL. The deal will<br />
allow Bebo’s users to remain within the social platform that they know<br />
and love, while enabling a new owner to bring new possibilities and<br />
experiences to bear. Criterion Capital Partners are specialists in<br />
facilitating growth plans and turnarounds and are well placed to drive<br />
Bebo’s effort to strengthen its foothold within the highly competitive<br />
social networking arena.</p>
<p>For AOL, the transaction will also create a <strong>meaningful tax deduction</strong>,<br />
which should allow us to more effectively manage our tax strategy.</p></blockquote>
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      <title>Huffington Post Buys Adaptive Semantics To Keep Up With 100,000 Comments A Day</title>
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The <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/">Huffington Post</a> has acquired its first company in a small cash deal, and it is not another blog or media site, but a pure technology startup called <a href="http://adaptivesemantics.com/">Adaptive Semantics</a>.  The two-person startup provides a semantic analysis engine (aka JuLiA) already used by the Huffington Post to help moderate the 100,000 comments published on the blog every day. 

Prior to the acquisition, the Huffington Post was already Adaptive Semantic's largest and only outside investor, buying a 20 percent stake in April, 2009.  Adaptive Semantic's two co-founders, Elena Haliczer and Jeff Revesz, will join Huffington Post to oversee its social news and community technology R&#38;D.  The acquisition price was not disclosed<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techcrunch.com&blog=11718616&post=190111&subd=tctechcrunch&ref=&feed=1" />]]>
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<p>The <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/">Huffington Post</a> has acquired its first company in a small cash deal, and it is not another blog or media site, but a pure technology startup called <a href="http://adaptivesemantics.com/">Adaptive Semantics</a>.  The two-person startup provides a semantic analysis engine (aka JuLiA) already used by the Huffington Post to help moderate the 100,000 comments published on the blog every day. </p>
<p>Prior to the acquisition, the Huffington Post was already Adaptive Semantic&#8217;s largest and only outside investor, buying a 20 percent stake in April, 2009.  Adaptive Semantic&#8217;s two co-founders, Elena Haliczer and Jeff Revesz, will join Huffington Post to oversee its social news and community technology R&amp;D.  The acquisition price was not disclosed</p>
<p>&#8220;Technology is very critical to us,&#8221; says CEO Eric Hippeau.  &#8220;In this case, the technology has implications for our content.  It makes moderation hyper-efficient.&#8221; With close to 3 million comments a month, the only way to moderate them is through automation tools (as well as a corp of about 30 professional human moderators).  </p>
<p>Other companies that license Adaptive Semantic&#8217;s technology for online comment moderation include CNN, Newsweek, and Disqus.  They might have to start looking for other solutions.  &#8220;We will honor the contracts, but very likely will not renew them,&#8221; says Hippeau, who doesn&#8217;t want to be in the business of licensing technology to other news sites and services. </p>
<p>JuLiA uses &#8220;supervised machine learning,&#8221; according to Revesz, to flag inappropriate comments, spam, and abusive language.  Humans manually tag a few hundred comments, which then get fed into the semantic analysis engine and applied across every comment.  This is an ongoing process so that the system continually gets better and better.  Not only can it detect abusive language or hate speech, but it can also help find commenters who may be topic experts.</p>
<p>Beyond comment moderation and making sure readers behave themselves on the site, the underlying semantic analysis technology can help bubble up the best contributions from readers.  &#8220;I am very confident that we are going to find all kinds of ways to apply it,&#8221; says Hippeau.  </p>
<p>The Huffington Post very much sees itself as a social news network, and its success is tied to engaging its readers in a variety of ways, from leaving comments to sharing posts across the Web via Twitter and Facebook.  It recently started <a href="http://techcrunch.com/2010/04/29/the-huffington-post-starts-giving-out-badges-to-readers/">awarding readers badges</a>.  JuLiA could help to feature the best comments or to award specific badges.  For instance, if a reader leaves a lot of comments on posts about Afghanistan, Iraq, and Hillary Clinton, they could get a Foreign Policy badge.  That is just a hypothetical example, but the technology opens the door to those kinds of features.</p>
<p>It also could be applied to article recommendations.  &#8220;The Huffington Post talks a lot about their social graph,&#8221; says Haliczer, &#8220;how people are connecting to each other and connecting to content. We can look at the content graph and recommend content to people.&#8221;  Whatever the Huffington Post will end up doing with the technology, it is important enough that the company wants to own it in-house.</p>
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      <title>comScore Cans Former AOL Exec Eric Bosco After 5 Months On The Job</title>
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      <dc:creator>Robin Wauters</dc:creator>
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        <![CDATA[<img src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/brosco.jpg" class="shot2" />On January 13, we reported that former AOL SVP of Global Products and U.S. Operations <a href="http://www.crunchbase.com/person/eric-bosco">Eric Bosco</a> had departed the company after nearly 14 years to <a href="http://techcrunch.com/2010/01/13/eric-bosco-comscore/">join the comScore management team</a> as <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/ericbosco">Chief Product Officer</a>. 

Five months later, he's out the door, we've now learned.

Bosco, who was hired to oversee all of comScore’s global product development efforts, will be departing the audience measurement company at the end of the month. You can find comScore CEO <a href="http://www.crunchbase.com/person/magid-m-abraham">Magid Abraham</a>'s memo after the jump.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techcrunch.com&blog=11718616&post=190231&subd=tctechcrunch&ref=&feed=1" />]]>
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        <![CDATA[<p><img src="http://tctechcrunch.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/brosco.jpg" class="shot2" />On January 13, we reported that former AOL SVP of Global Products and U.S. Operations <a href="http://www.crunchbase.com/person/eric-bosco">Eric Bosco</a> had departed the company after nearly 14 years to <a href="http://techcrunch.com/2010/01/13/eric-bosco-comscore/">join the comScore management team</a> as <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/ericbosco">Chief Product Officer</a>. </p>
<p>Five months later, he&#8217;s out the door, we&#8217;ve now learned.</p>
<p>Bosco, who was hired to oversee all of comScore’s global product development efforts, will be departing the audience measurement company at the end of the month. </p>
<p>ComScore CEO <a href="http://www.crunchbase.com/person/magid-m-abraham">Magid Abraham</a> apparently sent a memo to staffers earlier this morning, announcing the &#8220;change in the senior leadership team, and resulting organizational structure&#8221;.</p>
<p>Full memo:</p>
<blockquote><p>I would like to take the opportunity to communicate a change in the senior leadership team, and resulting organizational structure.  By mutual agreement, Eric Bosco will be departing comScore at the end of the month.  </p>
<p>While we greatly appreciate Eric’s efforts and achievements thus far in 2010, we have decided the Product organization’s immediate success depends on a decentralized organization structure.  This will bring the Product teams closer to their internal partners, enabling more effective and efficient execution on Product strategy.  </p>
<p>The following Product team alignments are therefore effective immediately:</p>
<p>AdEffx led by Joe Lahr, will report to Bridget O’Toole benefitting from tighter alignment with the ARS business</p>
<p>Core Audience Measurement Products, Media Metrix, Video Metrix and Ad Metrix led by Steve Dennen and his team, will report to Cameron Meierhoefer</p>
<p>The Product Design and Planning and Analytics Solutions teams led by Yon Nuta will report directly to me</p>
<p>Mobile Products will continue to be led by Mark Donovan reporting to Serge Matta</p>
<p>CMS products will continue to be led by their respective vertical teams within Erin Hunter and Serge Matta’s organizations, with the exception of CPG which will now be led by Jeff Cox.</p>
<p>Please join me in wishing Eric continued success in his career endeavors.  I also want to thank the Product team and their internal partners for their continued flexibility, adaptability, and laser focus on delivering the best products comScore has yet to bring to market.</p>
<p>- Magid</p></blockquote>
<p>We have an email in with comScore to confirm the authenticity of the memo, but we have no reason to believe it isn&#8217;t legit. <strong>Update:</strong> authenticity confirmed by comScore.</p>
<p>Any comScore folks who know more about this care to fill us in?</p>
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      <title>To Bookmark This PCWorld Article On The Future Of Browsers, Just Lick Your Screen</title>
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Some people dislike April Fools Day. We <a href="http://techcrunch.com/april-fools-shenanigans/">do not</a>. In fact, we think those who do are wrong. Not to mention a little weird, too.

It's just damn funny when we post things like Google <a href="http://techcrunch.com/2010/03/31/exclusive-google-to-go-nuclear/">going nuclear</a> and witness respectable industry blogs like Venturebeat <a href="http://green.venturebeat.com/2010/03/31/google-has-a-big-alternative-energy-announcement-forthcoming/">break the news</a> in quasi real time ... only to realize we were just kidding later on. Good times. But you know what's better than a good April Fools joke? 

A good April Fools joke that <a href="http://techcrunch.com/2008/12/23/the-april-fools-joke-that-keeps-on-giving/">keeps on giving</a> long after April 1 has passed.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=techcrunch.com&blog=11718616&post=190215&subd=tctechcrunch&ref=&feed=1" />]]>
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<p>Some people dislike April Fools Day. We <a href="http://techcrunch.com/april-fools-shenanigans/">do not</a>. In fact, we think those who do are wrong. Not to mention a little weird, too.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s just damn funny when we post things like Google <a href="http://techcrunch.com/2010/03/31/exclusive-google-to-go-nuclear/">going nuclear</a> and witness respectable industry blogs like Venturebeat <a href="http://green.venturebeat.com/2010/03/31/google-has-a-big-alternative-energy-announcement-forthcoming/">break the news</a> in quasi real time &#8230; only to realize we were just kidding later on. Good times. But you know what&#8217;s better than a good April Fools joke? </p>
<p>A good April Fools joke that <a href="http://techcrunch.com/2008/12/23/the-april-fools-joke-that-keeps-on-giving/">keeps on giving</a> long after April 1 has passed.</p>
<p>This morning, I picked up on <a href="http://twitter.com/opera/status/16372312957">a tweet</a> from Opera Software, embedded above, pointing to a <a href="http://www.pcworld.com/article/199071/your_browser_in_five_years.html?tk=twt_pcw">PCWorld article</a> on the future of the Web browser. Titled &#8216;Your Browser in Five Years&#8217;, it&#8217;s an interesting read on how browsers are undergoing changes that could potentially alter our day-to-day computing lives in the coming years.</p>
<p>Writes PC World&#8217;s Jeff Bertolucci:</p>
<blockquote><p>Meanwhile, Google is building voice recognition and text-to-speech functionality for browsers. And Opera Software&#8217;s free Opera browser&#8211;which pioneered voice and mouse-gesture browsing&#8211;also <a href="http://labs.opera.com/news/2009/04/01/">supports face gestures through your Webcam</a>.</p></blockquote>
<p>Face Gestures. To control your browser. Next time, better check that publication date, Jeff. :)</p>
<p>And I truly hope you didn&#8217;t watch that video without wondering if this was actually real.</p>
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